The Works of Substantial Returning Resurrection

Rev. Hyung Jin Moon
March 3, 2010, Seoul

In the Prayer and Devotions Room, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius and the Prophet Mohammad are attended centering on True Parents. I am deeply grateful to God that we can prepare such a space on the first floor of Cheon Bok Gung.

The Growth-stage Cheon Bok Gung is a precious sanctuary for all of us but we must not forget that it is not our destination; it is one step of the process.

The Korean people have heard about the Dedication Ceremony for Cheon Bok Gung through media reports. When we are victorious in the Completion-stage Cheon Bok Gung providence, the entire world will look at the Unification Church.

Through the works of substantial returning resurrection, I clearly believe that we will be victorious in the providence of the Completion-stage Cheon Bok Gung.

After Jesus went the way of the cross, he was resurrected and the Holy Spirit came down on the Pentecost. The apostles went out to the world and proclaimed the Gospel that the Lord died for our sins, resurrected and was victorious. The apostles were persecuted, opposed and made fun of.

In the 5th chapter of Acts, apostles are caught by Jews and put in prison. But the spirit world worked even in that sort of desperate situation. An emissary of the Lord appeared, opened the door to the prison, saved the apostles and took them to the sanctuary where they testified to the Lord again.

What can we learn from this? When we proclaim and praise who the Lord truly is, then the spirit world will move with us. When members proclaim True Parents with true faith, amazing works of the Holy Spirit will take place.

Prophet Mohammad, the founder of Islam, was climbing Mt. Hira to offer a prayer. He stopped halfway up the mountain to rest and fell asleep. In a dream, the archangel Gabriel appeared to him, gave him a large book of scripture and asked him to read it. However, the Prophet did not know how to read. So he told the angel, “I cannot read that. I don’t know what is written.” But the angel Gabriel again told him to read. Mohammad said, “I can’t.” After refusing and being told again to read three times, Mohammad finally opened the book up to read. At first he couldn’t read anything, but all of a sudden the Prophet Mohammad gained the ability to read and started reading the contents of the book of scripture.

When Mohammad woke up, he could not be certain that this dream and spiritual experience was God’s work. Then finally, he came to the conclusion that it was not God’s work. He became suspicious, thinking that he had been under the sway of an evil spirit. He thought that he should commit suicide by jumping off of the top of the mountain since his body was under the sway of Satan and evil spirits. But Mohammad was kept from committing suicide by meeting his wife’s maid on his way to the top of the mountain. The maid took him to his wife Khadijah. When Khadijah saw the dark look on her husband’s face, she asked him what had happened. Then Mohammad explained the spiritual experience that he had. Khadijah was sure that it was God working through the archangel Gabriel, so she asked her cousin Waraqah, who was a Christian.

Waraqah knew well about the work of archangels and other spirit beings in the Old and New Testaments, so he could tell that it was in fact the archangel Gabriel that Mohammad had seen. Waraqah predicted, “Your husband is a prophet who will lead our people.” From that moment, the Quran was confirmed and the Islamic faith began.

At the banquet on True Parents’ Birthday, 16 members of the Malaysian parliament attended. When the chairman of the HSA-UWC Foundation and I spoke, we testified to who True Parents really are. We proclaimed that True Parents are not just leaders or educators out to bring peace, but the Second Coming of Christ and the Savior of all humanity. Even though there were Muslims in the audience, I emphasized that everyone must open their spiritual eyes in order to realize what kind of people True Parents are.

Many of the staff were worried that these people of other faiths would feel uncomfortable if we proclaimed True Parents. But our thoughts were different. We knew that the people attending had come this far because they believed in True Parents and respected them. If we could not properly testify to True Parents in faith and make them open their spiritual eyes, that would really mean that we did not fulfill our responsibility and we did not have the right attitude of faith. That is why we confidently proclaimed out of faith.

God always works through truth. Although many people were worried about what [Kook Jin Hyung] and I said at the banquet, the response was very positive. The Muslim leaders were very interested in our testimonies. They said, “We had no idea that True Parents were that kind of people. We heard it for the first time. It is so amazing. We want to know more about them.”

After the banquet, the guests went back to Malaysia. I could not be sure how much they would remember of that day’s events. But they did not just sit on their thumbs. As soon as they went back to Malaysia, they contacted our church and asked for books related to our church, saying that they want to study the Divine Principle in depth. I could see that amazing spiritual phenomena take place when we proclaim the Lord earnestly.

The second Bible reading is from Acts 8:26-29: Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah the prophet. The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

Philip was Jesus’ apostle who went to Somalia as a missionary. The eunuch he met was reading Isaiah. Philip asked him, “Do you understand what you are reading?” The eunuch did not. Philip explained the meaning to him and told him the good news that Jesus Christ had gone the way of the cross and resurrected for the sake of the world. Then, the Holy Spirit worked and the Ethiopian official determined to worship the Lord. As they walked on the road together, they discovered a small well on the side of the road and Philip baptized the Ethiopian. That is said to be the beginning point of Ethiopian evangelization.

Dear members! The spirit world is also working around us. The spirit world tells us where we need to go and who we need to meet. When we praise True Parents with a true heart and testify that Father was sent to the earth by God to be the Second Coming of Christ, then the spirit world works.

Among the events that were held around the time of True Parents’ birthday, there was an interreligious gathering. During the event, I had an opportunity to speak on stage. I confidently explained who True Parents are. And I explained that True Parents had inherited the true love of God and walked the path of Seven Deaths and Resurrections and the Completion of Eight Stages. I explained that True Parents had died and died and died again for the sake of their children.

After I finished speaking, I planned to leave but I felt spiritually that I needed to greet some people there before moving to the next venue. This was a very strong feeling. I met a Christian minister from Canada with a congregation of 1200 people. He said that he believes in True Parents as the Second Coming of Christ, so he will teach the Divine Principle at his church.

One woman minister from Lebanon shed tears saying, “I did not know that God’s love was like that. I did not know that True Parents were that kind of people.” She added, “While I heard about the Seven Deaths and Resurrections, I felt my spirit rise up from my body and I felt great peace in my heart. Tears and praise naturally came out of my heart and I wanted to offer bows to God.” She had experienced returning resurrection through the Seven Deaths and Resurrections. I was deeply moved to hear about how the spirit world worked.

Ms. Eun Ju Pak, the president of Gimm Young Publishers, had worked hard to produce True Father’s autobiography. I met with her for lunch around one month ago. She told me that she received a lot of opposition because of the autobiography project. While she was preparing to publish the book, the editor-in-chief who had worked with her at Gimm Young Publishers for decades suddenly said that he was quitting. Ms. Pak was so shocked. She asked him why he was quitting and he said that he could not publish Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s book as a Christian. Also, a very famous Catholic cancelled a book publishing contract he had with Gimm Young Publishers. However, Ms. Pak pushed forward with publishing the book in the face of this kind of opposition. How do you think she was able to do so?

Ms. Pak is a faithful Buddhist. She wakes up early every day and offers 108 bows, recites the ??? [Geum Gang Gyeong] and offers a lot of devotion in front of Buddha. One day, Buddha visited her in her prayers and told her that she should publish Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s book. Through this kind of spiritual experience, she determined to publish Father’s autobiography and was able to overcome all types of opposition she received.

There are so many examples of these kinds of spiritual experiences. At the Dedication Ceremony for Cheon Bok Gung, the Venerable In Kong, president of the Taego Buddhist Order in Korea gave congratulatory remarks. He testified that True Parents are the living Buddha and Savior while True Parents were present substantially. Now leaders of religious denominations, the highest spiritual leaders, are experiencing returning resurrection and testifying to True Parents.

Dear brothers and sisters! In the Prayer and Devotion Room of the Growth-stage Cheon Bok Gung, the four great saints are attended along with True Parents. Every day, church leaders, women leaders and members are offering devotion. They go around the Prayer and Devotion Room and offer 210 bows every day. I can already feel amazing spiritual energy coming out of that room.

True Parents have given us a new age with heavenly energy. On the day of the dedication of Cheon Bok Gung, True Parents went into the Prayer and Devotion Room and offered a prayer. Father blessed the Cheon Bok Gung, calling it a holy ground that has heavenly fortune. True Parents opened the way for the spirit world to work and many people are now experiencing the works of substantial returning resurrection. One member was praying to the four great saints and saw a bright light coming from behind.

Jesus came to my dreams a few days ago. He came with his disciples, wearing white clothes and a blue shawl. He will continue to work for the Providence in greater ways.

Dear brothers and sisters! The spirit world is moving. You will also experience the works of returning resurrection. Mohammad, Jesus, Buddha and Confucius may appear in your dreams. When you pray, you will experience the kinds of mysterious events.

At the interreligious event, we proclaimed who True Parents are and explained about the mission True Parents gave to us. True Parents have carried out peace movements and interreligious activities for decades. Although we have actively supported True Parents’ efforts, we did not know how they connected to the Unification Church. The VIPs did not know. We thought that it was an entirely different movement.

On that day [at the interreligious event], I explained the vision for Cheon Bok Gung. In the Completion-stage Cheon Bok Gung, there will be a Buddhist temple, a Christian church and a Muslim mosque. We will go beyond interreligious dialogue to a new model of living together in peace. I proclaimed that it would be a beginning of Cheon Il Guk.

The leaders from various religious denominations who attended the interreligious event also visited the Growth-stage Cheon Bok Gung. They were very impressed to see the Prayer and Devotion Room in which paintings representing the four great saints were displayed. In the Growth-stage Cheon Bok Gung, we will proclaim who True Parents are with devotion and love. But in the Completion-stage Cheon Bok Gung, people of all religions will practice a life of attending True Parents.

Dear brothers and sisters, these kinds of things have been possible due to our confidently proclaiming who True Parents are.

The Unification Church has vision and hope because of True Parents.